by Around Dulwich | Aug 17, 2022 | Featured Business, Features, Home, Home and Garden, SE Magazines
The genus is huge and varied and contains more than 700 species. Culinary sage, Salvia officinalis, is a useful herb but also looks good in the border, especially the purple variety. But there are thousands more salvias to choose from in a multitude of colours. Native...
by Janine Winlaw | Jul 20, 2022 | Events, Featured Business, Features, Home and Garden, News, People, Photography, SE Magazines
Plants adapted to climate change With summers generally getting hotter, it makes sense to use plants in the garden that once established won’t need regular watering. Beth Chatto’s gravel garden and the RHS Hyde Hall’s dry garden, both in Essex, are fantastic...
by Around Dulwich | Jun 15, 2022 | Events, Featured Business, Home and Garden, Local News, People, SE Magazines, Uncategorized
Hedges create stylish boundaries but also help divide a garden into ‘rooms’, giving the space architectural structure. Hedge partitions also work well offset either side of a garden, create informal divisions, breaking up a long thin garden, for example, and creating...
by Angela Burgess | May 27, 2022 | Features, Home and Garden, News, SE Magazines
There’s nothing prettier than pink cherry blossom against a clear blue sky – a sign winter is behind us and spring is here. Most cherries flower from March to May and there’s a type of blossom to suit all tastes from delicate, single blooms to blousy doubles, in...
by Around Dulwich | Apr 27, 2022 | Art, Featured Business, Health & Fitness, Home and Garden, Local News, SE Magazines
However small your garden, planting at least one tree will help add seasonal interest with blossom or autumnal foliage, height and shade. Multi-stems in particular make a great architectural focal point as a specimen or plant several for more of a woodland feel. The...
